{"id":1888,"date":"2011-05-13T08:08:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T08:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=1888"},"modified":"2011-05-13T08:08:16","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T08:08:16","slug":"new-malawi-mobile-network-plans-270-million-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/13\/new-malawi-mobile-network-plans-270-million-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"New Malawi Mobile Network Plans $270 Million Investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> By:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cellular-news.com\/about_us\/author.php?name=IanMansfield\">Ian Mansfield<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Malawi&#8217;s newest, and fourth mobile network, Celcom has outlined plans to invest US$270 million in deploying their new network infrastructure, and will specifically target the rural markets.      The company &#8211; which is owned by local businessmen, the Mulli Brothers &#8211; was granted its license earlier this month after repeated attempts to get the third mobile license holder, G-Mobile to launch its services were unsuccessful.  Mulli was quoted in the local press saying that the new company has invested about K41 billion (US$270 million) to install its network, with a launch expected by this October. Nationwide coverage is expected by 2014.  &#8220;We want to penetrate rural areas in a way no cell phone company has done in Malawi. Our goal is to see at least one person in each household in Malawi having a cell phone,&#8221; the paper quoted Mulli.  According to statistics from the Mobile World analysts, the country ended last year with just under 2.6 million customers, which represents a population penetration level of around 16%. The country has two active mobile networks, Zain and Telecom Networks Malawi.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/China_cheap_mobilephone_low_cost_mobile_phone_GSM_phone_Nokia_mobile_phone_mobile_phone_cellphone200810101534065.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1889\" title=\"China_cheap_mobilephone_low_cost_mobile_phone_GSM_phone_Nokia_mobile_phone_mobile_phone_cellphone200810101534065\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/China_cheap_mobilephone_low_cost_mobile_phone_GSM_phone_Nokia_mobile_phone_mobile_phone_cellphone200810101534065-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>On the web: Nyasa Times &#8211; Mobile World<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By:\u00a0Ian Mansfield &nbsp; Malawi&#8217;s newest, and fourth mobile network, Celcom has outlined plans to invest US$270 million in deploying their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}